In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult?

A deeply compelling journey into the dark side of Japan, which centres on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman, the British girl who was murdered there in 2000.